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<h1>Ideally</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>I*de"al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In an ideal manner; by means of ideals; mentally.</def>

<h1>Idealogic</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>I*de`a*log"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to an idealogue, or to idealization.</def>

<h1>Idealogue</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>I*de"a*logue</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Idea</ets> + -<ets>logue</ets>, as in theo<ets>logue</ets>: cf. F. <ets>id\'82ologue</ets>.]</ety> <def>One given to fanciful ideas or theories; a theorist; a spectator.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Mrs. Browning.</i>

<h1>Ideat, Ideate</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw><hw>I*de"at</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>I*de"ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>ideatum</ets>. See <er>Idea</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld> <def>The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.</def>

<h1>Ideate</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>I*de"ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To form in idea; to fancy.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>The <b>ideated</b> man . . . as he stood in the intellect of God. <i>Sir T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Ideation</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>I`de*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.</def>

<blockquote>The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated . . . all enter now into the process of <b>ideation</b>. <i>J. D. Morell.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Ideational</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>I`de*a"tion*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation.</def>

<blockquote>Certain sensational or <b>ideational</b> stimuli. <i>Blackw. Mag.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Idem</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>I"dem</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>pron. &or; adj.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated <altname>id.</altname></def>

<h1>Identic</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>I*den"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Identical.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Hudibras.</i>

<h1>Identical</h1> <Xpage=725>

<hw>I*den"tic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>identique</ets>. See <er>Identity</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; <as>as, the <ex>identical</ex> person or thing</as>.</def>

<blockquote>I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same <b>identical</b> person who now remember that event, did then exist. <i>Reid.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological.</def>

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